In January 2007, I asked listeners to my BBC Radio Merseyside programme, On The Beat, to come up with titles for a Bob Dylan album, Highlands 61 Revisited, to celebrate him buying a country pile in Scotland. I was sent over 200 possible titles and my thanks to Chloe Alexander, Dave Donnelly, Andrew Doble, Sue Griffin, Ian Hughes, John Jones, Brian O’Connell and Kevin Toal.

In the wilds of Scotland, Bob Dylan has been recording with a ragged band of legendary musicians including Robbie ‘Burns’ Robertson, Rye McCooder, Aly Kooper and Wee Jimmie Keltner, noted for playing with porridge spurtles instead of drumsticks. Together they have created The Distillery Tapes, a mixture of Jock’n’Roll and Malt Country. The tracks are still shrouded in Highland mystery but they are rumoured to include the following titles: